Muscatine County in Iowa
*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Muscatine County but may fall under a city police department’s jurisdiction. They are included here for cross-reference purposes. More specific information may be found on each victim’s individual page.
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Homicide
Police Officer Jacob Neibert
55 YOA
Muscatine, IA (Muscatine County)
June 13, 1896
Officer Jacob Neibert was shot and killed on Saturday, June 13, 1896, after arresting two hobos for vagrancy. The two men overpowered and shot him. Neibert was able to give other officers a description of the two men before succumbing to his wounds.
Homicide
Felicitas Terrill
Muscatine, IA (Muscatine County)
Case # 86-01868
April 14, 1986
On the morning of April 14, 1986, the body of Felicitas Terrill was found in her home with four gunshot wounds to the head in what appeared to be a burglary.
Amber Marie Hayes
Homicide:
Amber Marie Hayes
7-1/2 months old
Case # 88-02703
603 Clay St.
Muscatine, Iowa
Muscatine County and Louisa County
June 9, 1988
Amber Marie Hayes, 7-1/2 months old, was reported missing by her mother, Mary Hayes, at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, 1988. Four days later, two boys riding all-terrain vehicles discovered the infant’s body, a pink diaper bag and blanket in a remote area near Lake Odessa in Louisa County.
Robert Kellar
Missing Person:
Robert Lee Kellar
Age at Report: 20
Missing From: Muscatine, IA (Muscatine County)
Missing Since: February 12, 1990
Robert Kellar was last seen in February 1990 in Muscatine, IA, when he left on a cross-country trip. His family assumed he would be back, but they never saw him again.
Homicide
Eugenio P. Garcia
(Eugenio Prieto-Garcia)
36 YOA
7 miles NW of Muscatine, IA
Muscatine County
June 21, 1992
On June 21, 1992, 36-year-old Eugenio Garcia’s body was found near the Dougherty Bridge 7 miles NW of Muscatine. Although cousins Vincente and Pedro Morales were arrested for kidnapping and strangling Garcia, they were ultimately released.
Corey Wieneke
Homicide:
Corey Lee Wieneke
22 YOA
West Liberty, IA (Muscatine County)
Case # 92-08083
October 13, 1992
Corey Wieneke, 22, was found bludgeoned to death in his rural West Liberty home on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1992. Wieneke’s fiancée, Jody Hotz, also of West Liberty, last saw him alive around 8:15 a.m. that morning and discovered his beaten body in his bedroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening.
Scott Tompkins
Homicide
Scott M. Tompkins
23 YOA
Muscatine, IA (Muscatine County)
Case # 95-13656
November 29, 1995
Scott M. Tompkins was shot by an assailant(s) while stopped to fix his windshield wipers. The victim was able to make it for medical treatment and later died. Prior to his death he was able to make a statement to police about the incident.
Isidro Gomez, Jr.
Homicide:
Isidro Gomez, Jr.
27 YOA
Muscatine, IA (Muscatine County)
Case # 08-018648
December 17, 2007
Isidro Gomez, Jr., of Muscatine, Iowa, was reported missing to the Muscatine Police Department on December 17, 2007, by Jessica Ridinger of Muscatine, Gomez’s girlfriend of eight years. His partially decomposed body was discovered May 6, 2008, in the woods off Funk’s Hill Road about five miles west of Muscatine by people hunting for mushrooms on the heavily wooded hill.
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